Fyodor Lukyanov: China is finally stepping up to its role as a superpower. This will change the world

The international sphere is aligning along two blocs, one led by the US and its allies, and the other by Beijing and Moscow

https://www.rt.com/news/572465-china-is-finally-superpower/

March 4, 2023

By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

Chinese national flags flutter at Tian’anmen Square ahead of the annual two sessions on March 3, 2023 in Beijing, China. © Getty Images

China has stepped up its diplomatic activity considerably. This is not only because it has broken out of the long-standing pandemic isolation that previously hampered its outreach. The main motive is that China’s role and weight in the international arena have grown to the point where contemplative detachment is no longer possible. This is an important shift in Chinese self-awareness; the question now is what changes in international practice it will lead to.

Non-action as the highest virtue and the non-contradictory interpenetration of opposites are principles of traditional philosophy, but they are also quite an applied way of conducting international activities. A detailed analysis of this phenomenon should be left to specialists, but it is worth noting that the shift from such a worldview to a more familiar ideological and geopolitical confrontation took place when China adopted the generally alien Western communist doctrine.

Mao Zedong attempted to change not only the social order but also the culture of the Chinese. But his reign ended with a bargain with the United States, which was a return to a strategic equilibrium that better suited the Chinese view of the world. Mutual recognition did not mean agreement and harmony, but it was in line with the objectives of the parties at the time. This period, which lasted until very recently, is only now showing signs of coming to an end.

Read more

 Ivan Timofeev: Could China and the US eventually end up like the USSR, as collapsed superpowers?

There is much debate in America about the last few decades, and there is complaining that it is China that has gained the most from the interaction. Criteria may vary, but in general it is hard to disagree that Beijing has been the primary beneficiary – at least in terms of the transformation of the country and its place on the international stage. Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of quiet, gradual ascent was entirely in the Chinese spirit, and the result has undoubtedly been justified.

So much so that it was extremely difficult for Beijing to understand that this super favorable and advantageous situation would come to an end.

This proved inevitable for one simple reason: China has acquired a power that, whatever its wishes and intentions, makes it a potential rival to the US. And this has led to a natural evolution of the American approach to Beijing. After all, the US style is the direct opposite of the classic Chinese style described above. And the latter’s attempts in the late 2010s and early 2020s to slow down the growing American pressure have run up against Washington’s firm intention to move the relationship into the category of strategic competition. To be fair, China’s assertiveness and self-confidence were also growing, but if everything had depended on Beijing alone, the period of beneficial cooperation would have lasted several more years. 

Read more

 Chinese peace plan: Can Beijing find a way to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, despite open hostility from the US and NATO?

Be that as it may, a new era has dawned. China’s diplomatic revival is intended to demonstrate that Beijing is not afraid to play a role in world politics. The form of engagement so far bears the hallmarks of the previous period and of that very traditional approach – the sterile precision of the wording of Chinese peace proposals on the Ukraine issue is evidence of this. But this too is likely to change. China’s desire to maintain an outwardly well intentioned neutrality suits Moscow; it is the West that is quick to allege insincerity, and to do so in a tone that is unbecoming of the Chinese. Beijing should not be expected to make a sharp U-turn, which is also contrary to its sense of propriety, but the direction is set.

And it is not a question of whether China shares Russia’s assessment of what is happening in Ukraine. Beijing has carefully avoided expressing an opinion because it does not consider it to be its business. But the realignment of forces on the world stage is taking its course, with China and Russia, whether they like it or not, on one side and the United States and its allies on the other. And from now on this will become increasingly clear. In his ten years at the helm of his country, Xi Jinping has transformed its domestic and foreign policies.

On the one hand, he has emphasized the classical Chinese outlook more than his predecessors, while on the other, he has honored the slogans and ideas associated with socialism. The former implies a self-sufficient harmony, while the latter tends to be outward-looking as much as inward-looking. This symbiosis is likely to define China’s positioning in the next five or ten years of Xi’s rule. The hostile international environment will increasingly test Beijing’s ability to maintain an acceptable equilibrium. Much will depend on how successful these attempts are, including for Russia.

China calls US a ‘direct threat’ to the world

Washington is making up excuses to preserve its “hegemony,” Beijing said

“Facts have proved more than once that the US is the direct threat to the international order and the culprit of the regional turbulence,” said the ministry’s spokesman, Colonel Tan Kefei. The statement went on to claim that, in pursuit of its own interests, the US on multiple occasions has “either waged wars against other countries or created conflicts, causing massive casualties and displacement of innocent civilians.”

https://www.rt.com/news/568880-china-military-us-direct-threat/

Dec 25, 2022

FILE PHOTO: China’s defense ministry spokesman Tan Kefei ©  AP / Heng Sinith

Washington intentionally hypes up the “China threat” as an excuse to boost its military spending, all in an effort to maintain its global dominance, the Chinese Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday, after President Joe Biden signed the 2023 US National Defense Authorization Act into law.

“Facts have proved more than once that the US is the direct threat to the international order and the culprit of the regional turbulence,” said the ministry’s spokesman, Colonel Tan Kefei.

The statement went on to claim that, in pursuit of its own interests, the US on multiple occasions has “either waged wars against other countries or created conflicts, causing massive casualties and displacement of innocent civilians.”

The $858-billion US military budget for the fiscal year 2023, which authorized $10 billion in security assistance and fast-tracked weapons procurement for Taiwan, is yet another in a series of provocative moves that “seriously jeopardize the peace and stability in Taiwan Strait and increase the risk of China-US military confrontation.”

READ MORE: US defense act is a ‘political provocation’ – China

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army further vowed to “resolutely safeguard national reunification and territorial integrity of the country,” warning that Washington has no other choice but to “respect China’s core interests and major concerns.”

The island of Taiwan has been self-governed since 1949, but never officially declared independence from Beijing, while China views it as part of its One-China territory. Tensions between Beijing and Taipei have been high since the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan in August.

Washington must drop its “old trick of unilateral bullying” that it plays with Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call earlier this week. “It has not worked with China in the past, nor will it work in the future.”

China seeks ‘more just and reasonable’ global governance – Xi to Russia

Beijing believes cooperation with Moscow will further this goal, the Chinese leader told visiting ex-President Dmitry Medvedev

Both China and Russia are considered strategic rivals by the US, which accuses them of trying to undermine the so-called “rules-based order.” This is a term Russian officials have said describes Washington’s global hegemony, which it is trying to preserve by all means possible in the face of the natural course of history. Chinese officials have accused the US of having a “Cold War mentality,” which stands in the way of global cooperation.

https://www.rt.com/news/568653-china-russia-global-order/

Dec 21, 2022

FILE PHOTO. Chinese President Xi Jinping. ©  Lintao Zhang / Getty Images

Beijing seeks to advance cooperation with Moscow so that the two could promote a better world order, Chinese President Xi Jinping said during a meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, on Wednesday.

The two nations, which have been strengthening strategic bilateral ties, can “jointly promote the development of global governance in a more just and reasonable direction,” the Chinese leader said during the meeting in Beijing, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Xi met Medvedev in his capacity as secretary general of the Communist Party of China. His guest, who has had stints as both president and prime minister of Russia, leads the ruling United Russia party.

The host hailed the party contacts as a good platform for fostering trust between the nations they govern. Continued Chinese-Russian cooperation is a “long-term strategic choice” for both sides, Xi noted, according to the Chinese media. Medvedev described the talks as “very useful” in a video comment.

READ MORE: Medvedev delivers ‘personal message’ from Putin to Xi

Both China and Russia are considered strategic rivals by the US, which accuses them of trying to undermine the so-called “rules-based order.” This is a term Russian officials have said describes Washington’s global hegemony, which it is trying to preserve by all means possible in the face of the natural course of history. Chinese officials have accused the US of having a “Cold War mentality,” which stands in the way of global cooperation.

The West is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Their days of hegemony are over

The West is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Their days of hegemony are over.

— Hassan Mafi ‏ (@thatdayin1992) November 28, 2022

While Joe Biden is destroying the US and the gardeners are working overtime to collapse the EU, Iran is moving closer to joining its allies Russia and China in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). pic.twitter.com/rTL0mILH4C

— Hassan Mafi ‏ (@thatdayin1992) November 28, 2022

It Was Never About Ukraine

Though to the US, the war in Ukraine is “bigger than Ukraine,” it is also “in many ways bigger than Russia.” Although the recently released 2022 National Defense Strategy identifies Russia as the current “acute threat,” it “focuses on the PRC,” or the People’s Republic of China. The Strategy consistently identifies China as the “pacing challenge.” The long-term focus is on, not Russia, but China. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/it-was-never-about-ukraine

BY TYLER DURDEN

SATURDAY, NOV 26, 2022

Authored by Ted Snider via Anti-War.com,

In his March 21 press briefing, State Department spokesman Ned Price told the gathered reporters that “President Zelenskyy has also made it very clear that he is open to a diplomatic solution that does not compromise the core principles at the heart of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.” A reporter asked Price, “What are you saying about your support for a negotiated settlement à la Zelenskyy, but on whose principles?” In what still may be the most remarkable statement of the war, Price responded, “this is a war that is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine.”

Price, who a month earlier had discouraged talks between Russia and Ukraine, rejected Kiev negotiating an end to the war with Ukraine’s interests addressed because US core interests had not been addressed. The war was not about Ukraine’s interests: it was bigger than Ukraine.

A month later, in April, when a settlement seemed to be within reach at the Istanbul talks, the US and UK again pressured Ukraine not to pursue their own goals and sign an agreement that could have ended the war. They again pressured Ukraine to continue to fight in pursuit of the larger goals of the US and its allies. Then British prime minister Boris Johnson scolded Zelensky that Putin “should be pressured, not negotiated with.” He added that, even if Ukraine was ready to sign some agreements with Russia, the West was not.”

Once again, the war was not about Ukraine’s interests: it was bigger than Ukraine.

At every opportunity, Biden and his highest-ranking officials have insisted “that it’s up to Ukraine to decide how and when or if they negotiate with the Russians” and that the US won’t dictate terms: “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” But that has never been true.

The US wouldn’t allow Ukraine to negotiate on their terms when they wanted to. The US stopped Ukraine from negotiating in March and April when they wanted to; they pushed them to negotiate in November when they did not want to.

The war in Ukraine has always been about larger US goals. It has always been about the American ambition to maintain a unipolar world in which they were the sole polar power at the center and top of the world. 

Ukraine became the focus of that ambition in 2014 when Russia for the first time stood up to American hegemony. Alexander Lukin, who is Head of the Department of International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow and an authority on Russian politics and international relations, says that since the end of the Cold War Russia had been considered a subordinate partner of the West. In all disagreements between Russia and the US up to then, Russia had compromised, and the disagreements were resolved rather quickly. 

But when, in 2014, the US set up and supported a coup in Ukraine that was intended to pull Ukraine closer into the NATO and European security sphere Russia responded by annexing Crimea, Russia broke out of its post-Cold War policy of compliance and pushed back against US hegemony. The 2014 “crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s reaction to it have fundamentally changed this consensus,” Lukin says. “Russia refused to play by the rules.” 

Events in Ukraine in 2014 marked the end of the unipolar world of American hegemony. Russia drew the line and asserted itself as a new pole in a multipolar world order. That is why the war is “bigger than Ukraine,” in the words of the State Department. It is bigger than Ukraine because, in the eyes of Washington, it is the battle for US hegemony.

That is why US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on November 13 that some of the sanctions on Russia could remain in place even after any eventual peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. The war has never just been about Ukraine: it is about US foreign policy aspirations that are bigger than Ukraine. Yellen said, “I suppose in the context of some peace agreement, adjustment of sanctions is possible and could be appropriate.” Sanctions could be adjusted when negotiations end the war, but, Yellen added, “We would probably feel, given what’s happened, that probably some sanctions should stay in place.” 

That is also why the US announced a new army headquarters in Germany “to carry out what is expected to be a long-term mission” while it simultaneously began pushing Ukraine toward peace talks. The military pressure on Russia and support for Ukraine will survive the war.

It is also why on June 29, the US announced the establishment of a permanent headquarters for US forces in Poland that Biden boasted would be “the first permanent U.S. forces on NATO’s eastern flank.”

It is again why, on November 9, the State Department approved the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System to Lithuania. They are not to be used by NATO in the Ukraine war. But they will, according to the State Department, “support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to improve the military capability of a NATO Ally that is an important force for ensuring political stability and economic progress within Eastern Europe.” At the same time, the State Department approved the potential sale of guided multiple launch rocket systems to Finland to bolster “the land and air defense capabilities in Europe’s northern flank.”

Presumably, the delivery of upgraded B61-12 air-dropped gravity nuclear bombs to NATO bases in Europe is also not in the service of current US goals in Ukraine.

Though to the US, the war in Ukraine is “bigger than Ukraine,” it is also “in many ways bigger than Russia.” Although the recently released 2022 National Defense Strategy identifies Russia as the current “acute threat,” it “focuses on the PRC,” or the People’s Republic of China. The Strategy consistently identifies China as the “pacing challenge.” The long-term focus is on, not Russia, but China. 

The National Defense Strategy clearly states that “The most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security is the PRC’s coercive and increasingly aggressive endeavor to refashion the Indo-Pacific region and the international system to suit its interests and authoritarian preferences.”

If Ukraine is about Russia, Russia is about China. The “Russia Problem” has always been that it is impossible to confront China if China has Russia: it is not desirable to fight both superpowers at once. So, if the long-term goal is to prevent a challenge to the US-led unipolar world from China, Russia first needs to be weakened. 

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently said that “China will firmly support the Russian side, with the leadership of President Putin . . . to further reinforce the status of Russia as a major power.” 

According to Lyle Goldstein, a visiting professor at Brown University and author of Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry, an analysis of the war in Ukraine published in a Chinese academic journal concludes that “In order to maintain its hegemonic position, the US supports Ukraine to wage hybrid warfare against Russia…The purpose is to hit Russia, contain Europe, kidnap ‘allies,’ and threaten China.”

The war in Ukraine has never been just about Ukraine. It has always been “bigger than Ukraine” and about US principles that are bigger than Ukraine and “in many ways bigger than Russia.” Ukraine is where Russia drew the line on the US-led unipolar world and where the US chose to fight the battle for hegemony. That battle is acutely about Russia but, in the long-term, it is about China, “the most comprehensive and serious challenge” to US hegemony.

Pope Francis fired as 13 bloodlines, Gnostic Illuminati negotiate end of Western civil war

This one is for the hardcore conspiracy theorists out there. I am having difficulty accepting it all as truth. Then again, it has been said that occultists will hide the truth among falsities in order to control the knowledge they seek to share.

Source: Pope Francis fired as 13 bloodlines, Gnostic Illuminati negotiate end of Western civil war | Covert Geopolitics

geopolitics.co

March 14, 2019

Pope Francis has been relieved of power as a part of a deal being negotiated between the Gnostic Illuminati and the 13 ruling bloodlines, say two sources, one a European royal, the other a Pentagon boss.  The two Western power centers, one based on meritocracy, the other on historical rule, have agreed to a jubilee and a massive campaign to “save the planet,” the sources say.

The Gnostic Illuminati, strongest in the military-industrial complex, and the bloodlines, who control finance and the media, agreed to compromise because they have to present a united Western front in order to make a deal with a resurgent Asia, they said.

Francis, who may stay on as a figurehead, was relieved of power because of the fiasco over convicted pedophile Cardinal Pell who ran the Vatican Bank, the sources say.  The Vatican and the Vatican Bank with its 6,000 bribery accounts of so-called “world leaders” are now run by “a troika of cardinals,” the Pentagon source says.

In public, this fundamental change can be seen in the fact that ten cardinals have been defrocked recently.  The most recent was French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who was convicted last week of covering up pedophilia. https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/03/08/catholic-church-cardinals-implicated-in-sex-abuse-cover-ups/

Here is what the representative of the 13 bloodlines had to say about the situation: “Cardinal Pell was an admission and acceptance of the Satanic Practices at our orders.” He added that the other cardinals were removed as part of a process of “weaning them off” of Satanic practices. “Pope Francis was fired because he was too high-profile in the National Cyber Security Center. His past life in Argentina came back to haunt him. Nobody—nobody in the outside world—is allowed to occupy office if they cannot be controlled by their compromise,” the source said.

Furthermore, today (March 11, 2019) is the eighth anniversary of the mass-murder attack against Fukushima, Japan, and the deal is being reached in part because the bloodlines were threatened with retaliation for this attack unless they reached a deal, Asian secret society sources say.

In addition, Asian secret society sources say the West needs to finish cleaning itself up before a final agreement on saving the planet can be reached.

On this front, a sustained attack against Zionism, the main source of Western evil, is a good sign.  “The truthful words of Representative Ilhan Omar about Zionist influence over the U.S. Congress (not based on votes—there are only nine million Jewish voters—but rather on bribery and blackmail and lies) have thrown the Democratic Party into a crisis that could lead to its demise.  CIA and Pentagon sources say Jared Kushner and John Bolton will be dismissed from the White House soon, and President Trump will disclose 9/11 truth in such a way as to terminate Zionist influence over the U.S. economy, government, and society,” was how former CIA operations officer Robert David Steele described the situation.

https://phibetaiota.net/2019/03/robert-steele-with-javad-heirannia-is-zionism-in-the-usa-over-one-former-spy-counterintelligence-officer-says-yes/

A Pentagon source agreed, saying “Zionism is dead.  Their lobby was neutered as the House passed a resolution 407 to 23 that did not rebuke Ilhan Omar but watered down anti-Semitism, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fired her Jewish chief of staff Danny Weiss.”

Now Syria has formally warned Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights, or face war.

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Syria-vows-to-attack-Israel-unless-it-withdraws-from-the-Golan-Heights-582858

Syria did this because it has the backing of Turkey, Russia, and Iran to force Israel to respect international law, while the U.S. military has made it clear that it will not fight for Israel, according to Pentagon and other sources.

The royal family and Pentagon sources both confirmed that Israel’s nuclear arsenal—its “Samson option”—has been neutralized, which is why that rogue state can now be forced to cease its messianic anti-social behavior. If they think God wanted them to murder over 100 million people so they could rebuild an ancient temple, they clearly do not understand God.

Meanwhile inside the U.S., targeted assassinations of key individuals have been taking place at an accelerated pace in order to restore democracy and the rule of law, CIA sources say.  “The hammer is about to drop, as Attorney General Bill Barr met John Huber prior to FISA declassification and mass arrests,” a Pentagon source noted.  The source was referring to the fact that Huber is being forced to finally take action against Hillary Clinton, Obama, etc. for Uranium One, etc.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/special-prosecutor-john-huber-meets-with-attorney-general-bill-barr/

The pharmacidical industry is also “under assault as Eli Lilly was forced to introduce generic insulin at half price while FDA director and Big Pharma shill Scott Gottlieb was fired for pushing states to cancel vaccine exemptions,” the Pentagon sources note.  This move to make vaccines mandatory was a desperate last-ditch attempt by the Khararian mafia to use toxic vaccines to murder a large percentage of the population in an attempt to save themselves from justice, CIA sources note.

A huge, secret war is also being waged by the Khazarian mafia to grab control of Africa’s resources in a desperate attempt to avoid the bankruptcy of their Washington, D.C.-based United States Corporation, say Mossad and CIA sources.  Africa is nearly twice as big as Russia and larger than Canada, and bigger than China plus the U.S. combined.  The last thing the Khazarian mafia wants is for Africans to take back control of their own resources.

The most visible recent move in this secret war was the downing on Sunday of an Ethiopian Boeing 737 aircraft.  Mossad sources say the aircraft was remotely hijacked and its passengers, including 19 UN officials, were killed as part of an attempt to disrupt a UN conference aimed at ending poverty and environmental destruction in Africa.

https://10times.com/united-nations-environment-assembly

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld

However, the remote hijacking of this aircraft is looking to have been a really stupid move by the Khazarians and is likely to lead to the bankruptcy of the Boeing Corporation.  That is because it is the second time in four months that a Boeing aircraft has been crashed via remote control by the Khazarian mafia.  China, Ethiopian Air (Africa’s largest airline), and the Cayman Islands have grounded all Boeing 737s, and other airlines and countries are sure to follow until the remote-control hijackers are removed from control of Boeing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/ethiopia-airline-crash-china-grounds-boeing-737-max-8-jets-in-wake-of-disaster

It is certainly no coincidence that after all military officers left the Trump regime, a Boeing executive, Patrick Shanahan, was made Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense.  Shanahan has no real power over the U.S. military, because they no longer obey the bankrupt Washington, D.C.-based corporate government, Pentagon sources say.  Here is what an X-files source had to say about the situation:  “Many of the lizard families have shares in Boeing, and Boeing is tied up with Lockheed Martian [sic] as well.”

In any case, the secret battle for Africa is continuing on other fronts, especially over control of mineral resources.  Hints of this war can be seen in various recent news headlines.  The most bizarre was the story about diamond billionaire Ehud Lanaido dying “during penis enlargement surgery.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html

In fact, “he was taken to a special private clinic on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris late at night, long after the clinic was closed,” a Mossad source said.  “He was a direct competitor of Benny Steinmetz, who up until a few months ago was on the run from several governments, including Belgium and Africa, for billions of dollars allegedly owed in back taxes from illegal purchases and sales of rough and polished diamonds smuggled out of Angola and Sierra Leone for many years,” the source continued.

“These two diamond dealers, among the biggest in the world of diamond trading, were targeted by those at the very top.  One was removed, and one was put back on his pedestal as King of the business.  Notice how close the timing is on the rise and fall of the two titans,” the source noted.

Here is the second headline he was referring to:  “Mining Billionaire Ends Bitter Guinea Dispute After Months of Secret Negotiations.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-25/steinmetz-stages-guinea-comeback-in-sarkozy-brokered-deal

If you read the article, you can see that Steinmetz was helped by a who’s who in the Zionist Khazarian mafia, including George Soros (i.e., his cut-out), Tony Blair, and Nicholas Sarkozy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-10/china-asks-local-airlines-to-ground-boeing-737-max-caijing-says

Also related to this was the news that Indian diamond mogul Nirov Modi is to be extradited.  Modi allegedly absconded with over 2 billion dollars from Indian banks.  “I am told that he will be picked up and become the ‘poster child’ for the legal system to show the world that you cannot escape the long arm of justice,” the Mossad source said.  “Don’t forget, he is not one of the inside ‘boys’—the wrong bloodline, and thus expendable in this Game of Thrones with the Khazarian Zionists,” he added.

https://zeenews.india.com/india/uk-certifies-indias-extradition-request-day-after-nirav-modi-tracked-down-to-swanky-london-apartment-2186288.html

Further developments related to the ongoing African resource grab can be seen in a letter to the editor sent by the Khoi-San peoples, who warned of the use of a fake king in an attempt to steal their land and resources.

The Khazarian mafia are also attempting a similar resource grab in South America. There, the latest move was the use of cyber and energy weapons to sabotage Venezuela’s energy grid.

The rest of the world has agreed to continue funding the U.S. military and transform them into a benevolent planetary protection force. They can start earning their money by rounding up all these criminals and either putting them in jail or killing them.

https://benjaminfulford.net/2019/03/11/pope-francis-fired-as-13-bloodlines-gnostic-illuminati-negotiate-end-of-western-civil-war/

The stench of imperialism: US warns Italy against joining China’s new Silk Road plan

The US has warned Italy against supporting China’s global economic effort, called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), denouncing the infrastructure plan as a “vanity project.”

Source: PressTV-US warns Italy against joining China’s new Silk Road plan

PressTV

Sun Mar 10, 2019

The Chinese flag flies on the Yalu River Broken Bridge, with the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, and the North Korean city of Sinuiju behind, in the border city of Dandong, in China’s northeast Liaoning province on February 23, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

The United States has warned Italy against supporting China’s global economic effort, called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), denouncing the infrastructure plan as a “vanity project.”

In a thinly veiled rebuke of the initiative, which aims to unite European and Asian markets, a spokesman for the White House’s group of national security advisers said on Saturday that Italy’s participation in the BRI would add “legitimacy” to Beijing’s infrastructure project.

“Italy is a major global economy and great investment destination. No need for Italian government to lend legitimacy to China’s infrastructure vanity project,” spokesman Garrett Marquis said on Twitter.

Italy’s intention to pull itself out of an economic recession that has gripped countries in southern Europe signals an upset for the US and the administration in Washington, which has been actively seeking to curb China’s global influence.

Marquis had previously claimed that the project was unlikely to “bring any sustained economic benefits to the Italian people,” and that it “may end up harming Italy’s global reputation in the long run.”

The White House official had called on “all allies and partners, including Italy, to exert pressure on China to bring its global investment efforts in line with accepted international standards and advanced practices.”

The Saturday tweet came after Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he might sign an accord with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month, despite reports that Washington was concerned at the prospect of Italy joining the venture.

“With all the necessary precautions, Italy’s accession to a new silk route represents an opportunity for our country,” Conte said on Friday, noting that participation in China’s trade master plan would be up for discussion during Xi’s upcoming visit to Italy.

The Chinese president is due to travel to Italy from March 22 to 24. Conte has pointed out that Rome and Beijing will seek a framework deal during the state visit.

The Italian premier has also announced his plans to attend a BRI summit in China in April.

PressTV-China, US clash at summit, Xi says Silk Road not ‘trap’

Chinese president rejects US defamation of its Silk Road economic initiative.

The BRI plan, also known as the One Belt One Road project and championed by Xi, aims to link China by sea and land with southeast and central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, through an infrastructure network on the lines of the ancient Silk Road.

The US, which is currently engaged in a massive trade dispute with China, views the vast Asian country as a direct threat to its economic dominance and has expressed pessimism about Xi’s infrastructure plan.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed steep tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese products.

Since taking office, Trump has claimed that China’s rise as an exporting powerhouse has hurt US workers and manufacturing.

Trump has imposed tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods and threatened to target all Chinese exports to the US. Beijing has responded by imposing tariffs on $110 billion in US products.

Other trade partners of the US, including the European Union, Canada and Mexico, have also retaliated with tit-for-tat tariffs against American products.

Rudkowski and Corbett: Why The China World Order Is Here On Purpose (23 min)

WeAreChange

Published on 13 Sep 2018

In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gives you the latest breaking news on the China World Order and why it is here on purpose. We talk about the real news while exposing fake news media censorship on the topic of China with James Corbett of the Corbett report. Find Jame’s channel here https://www.youtube.com/user/corbettr… Visit our MAIN SITE for more breaking news http://wearechange.org/